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The Bible:
Prayer: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Prayer, 2nd ed. Don't laugh.
Sermon: "The Theology of the Cross" by Rev. Mark F. Bartels of Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Madison, Wisconsin. Larger-print version.
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, both audio and nicely-readable text version on the Truth According to Scripture site.
A Christian Thinktank, linked by my friend and peer and fellow TCS blogger William Gasarch.
Speaking Out is one thing I'm supposed to do. Lord, order my tongue---which means pen and fingertips too. One way is that the items below respect a principle for devotional works stated by Martin Luther: they must include a large part "for your neighbor alone." One implication of this guides me not to write something here "in theory" before applying it and seeing how it works out. Curiously that's the opposite of my professional vocation.
Poem and composition: "Application of the Lord's Prayer for 9/11" (plain text file with notes).
Essay, "John Donne Meets Google". The Maundy/Mandate Thursday part of a cycle for Holy Week.
The part for Good Friday is the sermon by Rev. Bartels above.
Essay, Hey You. The part of the cycle for Palm Sunday and Vigil Saturday, confessional.
Essay, Is There More Of Me?, for Resurrection Sunday. Still being written as of 4/10/2012, but parts are in the presentation below and the gist is in my eulogy for my father.
Presentation, "Is There Room for God in the Cosmos?" Three-part series at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Eggertsville NY. Also unfinished---more to come---plus I should indicate the commentary that goes with certain slides. Forum response giving the outline of my approach to knowledge (local copy if forum link breaks).
Other things can't go here until they're 'proved'---at least that is similar to my professional life---or at least 'probed'.
A little bit of how I got led into this: note, Jan. 2007 photo, and explication (with some good passages using oBB and Luther's quotation).
